Premstätten
The municipality was founded as part of the Styria municipal structural reform, on 31 December 2014, from the dissolved independent municipalities Unterpremstätten and Zettling.
One petition from the municipality Zettling against merging, at the Constitutional Court, was introduced but was unsuccessful.
After a corresponding municipal council, the municipality carries since 2016 the name "Premstätten".
Geography
Municipality arrangement
The municipal territory includes the following six sections or like-named Katastralgemeinden (areas and populations as of 1 January 2024):
- Bierbaum (916; 245.62 ha or 606.9 acres)
- Hautzendorf (1085; 407.28 ha or 1,006.4 acres)
- Laa (593; 399.75 ha or 987.8 acres)
- Oberpremstätten (1469; 471.63 ha)
- Unterpremstätten (2526; 908.22 ha or 2,244.3 acres)
- Zettling (492; 493.35 ha or 1,219.1 acres)
Politics
Mayor
The first mayor after the merger, Anton Scherbinek (ÖVP), was elected by the municipal council on 20 April 2015 during the constitutive session. Until then, the Commissioner of the Government, Günter Scherübl had been in charge of official business since 1 January 2015. He was re-elected in 2020 and stayed in office until June 2021. Matthias Pokorn (ÖVP) is mayor since then.
Town council
The council consists of 25 members, which are made up of the following groups:
- 12 ÖVP
- 7 Liste Ingrid Baumhackl
- 4 SPÖ
- 1 FPÖ
- 1 Die Grünen
The prior elections brought the following results:
Party | 2015 | 2010 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stimmen | % | Mandate | St. | % | M. | |
ÖVP | 1378 | 45 | 12 | 1593 | 53 | |
Liste Ingrid Baumhackl | 877 | 28 | 7 | nicht kandidiert | ||
SPÖ | 488 | 16 | 4 | 638 | 21 | |
FPÖ | 209 | 7 | 1 | 251 | 8 | |
Die Grünen | 133 | 4 | 1 | 136 | 5 | |
Mit Josef Eisner für Unterpremstätten |
nicht kandidiert | 370 | 12 | |||
Wahlbeteiligung | 64% | 73% |
The municipality amalgamation now carried was followed in the voting results.
The notional comparison election shows at Fusion municipalities summed votes of the original communities. Therefore, comparisons are not possible.